eta - wonderful what a bit of external flash will do. Now that shy little mouse has come out of hiding.
This is my card for Cindy's 48th tea-party. Gonna be some celebration in 4 weeks when it's a year old!!!
I picked out a whole load of gingerbread and baking embellishments yesterday morning - baking trays, bowls, spoons, oven gloves, spatulas - but the card went its own way. I'm looking in that window with the green curtains, and instead of muffins I did have little gingerbread people sitting on the window sill, but the mouse isn't a good scarecrow and some of those birds still hanging around from last week came along and ate them all up...
Sorry the mouse isn't showing - there's no flash so I don't know why his pearly coat has flared so much. I'll try for a better picture after work.
The base is A2 Bazzill, ornamented with flowers and leaves in the same card. A bit like decorating a fancy pie, really . The window is Art Impressions, stamped once onto Bazzill and once onto the same card as the curtains, which I then swiped with blue ink to get the verdigris colour of the tiles. I cut out the windows, sutck some curtains and general folksy wallpaper paper behind. The mouse is a little punch art fellow who's been lurking on my desk since before we moved house, so I don't remember all the details of sizes, but it's a circle for his body, heart for his face, circles for his ears and nose and a curl for his tail. Being very agile, he's swinging down from the window.
Got to go to work - be back to look at the rest of the tea-party cards later...
Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 GMT Views: 1094
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Registered: February 1, 2005 Location: Temple, Tx Posts: 37720
Wed, May 27, 2009 @ 9:06 PM
OMG, this is sooooo super cute!!!!! What a darling little mouse hanging on the window, which is tooooo awesome!!! Love the curtains and the wallpaper, too!!! Now, make sure this little fella is gone by the time I get there...I don't do well with mice under foot!!!!!
Registered: July 1, 2007 Location: small town near montreal, quebec Posts: 26677
Fri, May 29, 2009 @ 3:47 AM
Now like this isn't the sweetest mouse you ever saw hanging out a window! Very creative Sabrina, just love the window too, and the flowers. Fantastic colors! TFS Now, if this little one could fall into someone's tea cup to distract everyone, I could make a dash for Joan's apple pie. LOL
Registered: May 31, 2008 Location: Seattle Posts: 14509
Sat, May 30, 2009 @ 6:47 PM
Sabrina, this is so creative and sweet! Love your mouse hanging out the window. Darling scene you've created here and you are evidently a master with the exacto knife. I wouldn't even try to make those perfect windows ... but you've outdone yourself here!
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